Bahar Mirhosseni is a Lecturer at UCLA School of Law and teaches Law 835, Pay or Stay: An Exploration of the Bail System in America. She has spent over a decade in indigent defense, in New York and California, first through The Legal Aid Society of New York, as a public defender in Brooklyn and as a Criminal-Immigration Staff Attorney representing non-citizens, conducting select post-conviction advocacy, and advising criminal defense attorneys across New York City. She has collaborated and consulted with human rights organizations including the Georgia Capital Defender Office, the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.